Yes I personally think it is. With the ability to target multiple platforms, real-time API, mature ecosystem and great community, you’ll have the time to focus on the your core business needs.
This statement was regarding Kadira monitoring tool and the business around it and not Meteor specifically, and since then the monitoring tool has been released as Open Source and added to Galaxy.
Meteor today is way more mature then what it was in 2015, it’s up to date with Node, it’s open to the rest of the NPM ecosystem, it supports multiple view technologies, it supports ES6 imports, the company behind it (MDG) is not longer a startup but a mature business with multiple products and yes it can scale both in code (dynamic imports, SSR) and traffic using RedisOplog.
Articles you read in 2015 are not talking about the same tech and tooling ecosystem we’ve today and that’s why I think Meteor needs fresh blog posts, press releases and successful case studies. And hopefully your project would be one of them.
So yes, Meteor and Galaxy are a logical choice for startup and companies, unless you’ve the surplus team members with PhDs in Webpack, Redux, DevOps, real-time APIs, Cordova configurations etc. to fiddle with those technologies instead of working on your core business.
I’ve no affiliation with MDG, I’m just fan and consumer of the tech since 2015, and if anyone has any rational objections or criticism of the tech in 2017, I honestly would love to hear and discuss them.